Threats and Harassment of Public Officials: Introducing a New Dataset

• In Event: The Rise in Political Violence in the United States

Brief Overview

Data collection effort that synthesizes existing data from multiple sources and adds new observations to create novel incident-level data across time. This first of its kind dataset collects every public incident of threat and harassment

Authors

• Joel Day, Princeton University

• Aleena Khan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Michael Loadenthal, Princeton University

• Shannon Hiller